A five-year-old girl who attended a Belfast primary school which reported a severe case of strepA has died
BBC News NI Health Correspondent
A girl who attended a Belfast primary school which reported a severe case of the bacterial infection strep A has died, BBC News NI understands. The five-year-old became severely ill last week and was treated at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. On Friday the Public Health Agency sent a letter to parents of P1 to P3 children at Black Mountain Primary School.Children were asked to attend a clinic to be seen by a doctor and receive a preventative course of antibiotics.Strep A can cause a range of illnesses. Most cases are mild - a sore throat or a skin infection that can be easily treated with antibiotics.Some people develop scarlet fever, which causes a skin rash and flu-like symptoms, including a high temperature.
Very rarely, strep A can cause something called invasive group A streptococcal infection or iGAS, which can be deadly.Northern Ireland is currently dealing with an outbreak of scarlet fever among school children.
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